I have exactly the same issue. I don't have VanillaSEO in plugins. I did disable VanillaStats and then this call with no reply vanished from Dashboard. Instead a list of Recently Active Users appeared I could not see before! Enabling VanillaStats again make endless call reappear and list of recently active user vanish. I'm on Vanilla 2.2.1 and Version checker for plugin gives no new update available for plugins I have.

The endless call loop is as above in pic.
I did disable VanillaStats again for time being.

I have the same issue on 2.3. Note that this is after about two weeks of waiting each time I went to the dashboard because the stats graph would take 2-10 seconds to load. Now it doesn't load at all. I don't have Vanilla SEO, either.

@vrijvlinder said:
Disable those too... my money is on VanillaSEO as the culprit...

The problem seems to sadly remain, or a situation happens as described by the other users right above me (the graphs disappear entirely in favour of a list of recently active users).

What's strange about all this is that I haven't made any changes to the website itself. One week it was working just fine, the next, it became an endless loop. I'm not sure what happened between those times.

@vrijvlinder said:
The issue has been filed. It is only a matter of when or if they will read it and or fix it...

Who is "they?" ? Vanilla core devs ?

Apparently no one has been assigned to look into this issue despite it being filed.. sorry that is as much as one can do.. maybe I filed it in the wrong place, if that is the reason no one has looked at it, I take the blame and I am sorry. I thought I filed it in the right place.

Please start a new discussion about this issue, and hopefully someone will pay attention and do something to fix this terrible blunder. Without statistics that plugin/service is worthless..

I am just a volunteer here, nothing more, not even a moderator... and even though I have contributed time and code, _ am nothing and people including the Vanilla Staff , do not take me seriously , maybe because I am in my 50's and a woman... Please forgive me for that, I was born that way...

Their priority is their assets and not open source so be patient... I am sure they will fix it when they get a chance...

@vrijvlinder said:
The issue has been filed. It is only a matter of when or if they will read it and or fix it...

Who is "they?" ? Vanilla core devs ?

Apparently no one has been assigned to look into this issue despite it being filed.. sorry that is as much as one can do.. maybe I filed it in the wrong place, if that is the reason no one has looked at it, I take the blame and I am sorry. I thought I filed it in the right place.

Please start a new discussion about this issue, and hopefully someone will pay attention and do something to fix this terrible blunder. Without statistics that plugin/service is worthless..

I am just a volunteer here, nothing more, not even a moderator... and even though I have contributed time and code, _ am nothing and people including the Vanilla Staff , do not take me seriously , maybe because I am in my 50's and a woman... Please forgive me for that, I was born that way...

Their priority is their assets and not open source so be patient... I am sure they will fix it when they get a chance...

Well, I certainly appreciated your help. So you recommend we start a whole new discussion rather than continue this one to address this issue?

@vrijvlinder said:
people including the Vanilla Staff , do not take me seriously , maybe because I am in my 50's and a woman...

I don't know why you're casting aspersions on yourself. Gender, age, number of posts, and community tenure (beyond a bare minimum) aren't among my qualifications for being a moderator. Not being asked to moderate doesn't mean I think less of someone.

On one community I run I haven't added a moderator in more than five years despite it being even more active than this site - and my lead moderator there is a woman (and yes, over 50) who has done the job for more than a decade. So it's possible this gay community manager might not be an ageist and sexist.

@vrijvlinder said:
Their priority is their assets and not open source so be patient...

I don't want to be a moderator, I turned it down when I was asked to be one remember? That was over 3 years ago... People that I help or that need help are the ones that put weight on me and I must reiterate that I do not work for the company nor have any clout or special power to make things happen. It's beyond my control. You told me to post issues at github and I did. More than that, I can't do. I was apologizing for that.

People here mistake me for a man all the time... only you and the regulars know I am not a man. Gay or not.
What are you going to say to people after they continually ask you when this will be fixed ? Be patient.

Your assets, meant in terms of income generation is the paid hosting and forum management of big communities from what I gather. And dealing with that is priority over people not having statistics working on forums they may have just started or that they have much traffic but had only noticed. Since they don't pay for having it running 100% , they must either fix it themselves if they can, or wait until it's fixed by the developers for the core. It is not meant to be taken as Open source is not as important. But that it will be fixed based on priorities. As many core plugins have taken years to be fixed... and continually asking me when it will be fixed , is like watching paint dry because I simply have no control over that.

It now works but only half. I did enable the plugin again after reading this but I only get two columns with Popular Discussions at left and Active Users at right. Graphics on page views, Users, Discussions, Comments are gone (zero).

In both day and month tabs.

I'm in a critical beta period with my forums and need those graphics back asap.

I tried the above steps and still experience the originally reported problem. I can see that the redirect is now working, however my dashboard reports other 404 errors for (on the analytics domain, https://analytics.vanillaforums.com/):